After the positive feedback on my First Teach Tumbler about how to incorporate your passion & experience into your photography to take it the next level of Editorial Images I thought it was time to do another. This time I focus on something all photographers face daily, from beginners to pros :LIGHTING.

The Process:Deciding Ambient Light or strobes.Deciding the artistic vision.Finding the Light.Choosing the settings.Enhancing the Light.Post Process.

A : Deciding the light. I decided I wanted to shoot it ambient light. What is ambient light? It is natural sources of light available in the place you're shooting. It could be the sun, the moon or the overhead lights in your room.

B. (Yup. Step one is that easy, decide the light and move on.) Deciding the artistic vision.Sounds hard right? All it means is pre-visualising how you want the image to look. Are you going for a clean, light editorial image? Almost flat lighting it? Flat lighting is when something is lit directly and the light is diffused. Or is it going to be a photo that is moody ? Something which is 3 dimensional is usually created by contrast and shadows.

C) Finding the Light. Where is the light best according to the mood of the photo you've decided. I decided I liked the back lighting shot. What is that? It's as easy as it sounds. Backlighting is when the lightsource is behind the subject. For which in this case I had to just position my self so the shoes were backlight. (More in Part II).

D) Choosing the settings.This depends on if it's a Human Subject or not and the basic settings. Also includes deciding the white balance. And for you guys I actually went through alot of them from Auto White Balance- Daylight- Shade-Cloudy.

E) Enhancing the light easily. So no fancy shamncy gear could be used keeping in mind the tutorial was to make it easy. So I trudged the couple of feet to my drawing room, grabbed the cushion with the lightest colour, a warm creamish tone. I Used the cushion as a reflector, to bounce back light which was falling off from the subject. And that's how we got the Editorial Image .

Alizeh

A completely creative soul. I'm obsessed I think , no matter where I'm sitting,what I'm doing,I start noticing little elements I would love to capture.Apart from witnessing everything through a series of continuous frames I'm an avid reader (ask my friends and anyone who knows me) and have been writing since I was born and not the dear diary stuff either! Always my tumbler of thoughts has been on deeper issues .